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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that studies issues regarding open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new advancements in online learning enable humans all around the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. These massively open online courses are customarily free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that e-learning organizations are having to deal with in 2015 because e-learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can stakeholders be assured that the quality of these MOOC courses is good? How can students certify that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOC classes? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Dominica to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal? How can participants deal with the issues of low motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more abundant there is a developing necessity to gain a better understanding of how MOOC classes are being conducted. Teachers and many other participants need to better grasp the outcomes of these significant new open educational experiments. Trainers want to better understand how these massive open online courses can be made better. To respond to this growing demand for facts the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open educational resource issues. This scholarly new book also examines the major controversies associated with MOOCs and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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